Tag: Films

"When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from where I usually stand. There are fewer curbs, fewer sidewalks, and almost no street signs, mailboxes, or leashed... Continue Reading →

With all the recent movie news and Oscar nominations coming out, it's difficult to follow everything that happening and who's been nominated. So here's the simple ABC's of the Oscars. Like every good ABC's it's roughly not really in the tone of chart-smashing hit "Twinkle-Twinkle Little Star" it's the beat for each stanza. //commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Twinkle_Twinkle_Little_Star_plain.ogg?embedplayer=yes Got... Continue Reading →

I'm at a loss for words. I don't really want to spend much time on this movie which I think is extremely justified because I don't this movie spent much time on this movie. You know how they say like Tommy Wiseau's The Room is the best worst movie ever because it's just so damn... Continue Reading →

Wish Upon (2017) sucks. It's obviously uninspired and brutal to sit through. If you like cheap horror semantics, formula plots/cinematography/editing, and overall blandness then go knock yourself out. Yet, this movie lives in this bizarre world of completely not understanding youth culture... or I think just humans in general. It is one of the most... Continue Reading →

Table of Content
Introduction
Overview/review
Characters
Rasputin
Music and Musical
Why Doesn't Disney Sell Anastasia Merchandise?
What Happened to Fox Animation Studios?
Animation
Is Anastasia Historically Accurate?
Conclusion
Introduction
It’s fair to call Anastasia (Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, 1997) a classic right? It’s well received, sitting at an 86% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 7.1/10 on IMDb. It holds a legacy as an Oscar nominated film and the historical feat of pioneering the “rich” history of the Fox Animation Studio… more on that later. The film has recently just become two decades old, and it hasn’t disappeared from relevancy. On the contrary, it just got adapted into a Broadway musical by the same team of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens who earned the film its,
“Oscar nominations for Best Original Song (“Journey to the Past”) and for Best Music: Original Musical or Comedy Score” – Adam Hetrick Playbill
The film even a box-office success, earning a nearly a hundred forty million worldwide on an estimated fifty-million-dollar budget. Still, I just feel that despite the “success” of the film, this film garners the same amount of admiration as Disney’s more lackluster efforts such as Treasure Planet or Atlantis: the Lost Empire. That said why don’t we take a look and see if Anastasia has withstood the test of time.

So I just watched Circle (2015) a film that has the great misfortune of having a name that is dangerously close to a film that stars the like of Tom Hanks and Emma Watson. Not to be confused with the bomb that was The Circle, this is a suspenseful Science-fiction thriller directed by the team of ... Continue Reading →

All right, let’s review Star Wars:The Last Jedi. I start this off by saying, I admittedly don’t have high stakes in major tent-pole blockbusters movies. I don’t really get wrapped up in the hype culture and the big hullabaloo that surrounds films like this. At the same time, I don’t really consider myself a film... Continue Reading →

Some Freaks is an independent movie on Netflix directed by Ian MacAllister McDonald. This indie darling is the tale of two high school outcasts who find romance; having the time of their lives until they come to encounter that the volatile nature of youth may become an impossible adversity to overbear. I will now demonstrate... Continue Reading →

“I don’t fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach” – Mary Roach Scary as that might be Mary, obviously you forgot about the true terror of life… a smart phone. Smartphones... Continue Reading →